Transmission 7 - Life Lessons - Section B
Jun 19, 2021
The two chatty students, ignoring the planet-shattering events around them, whilst they discuss some abstruse concept, were inspired by two real students. I used to occasionally come across them when I worked in a local university. On the odd lunchtime break, I would sit in what I thought was a secluded alcove to enjoy a sandwich and some silent drawing, when all of a sudden, from the next alcove, would come these two strident voices discussing whatever topic their morning lecture had covered. The pair were totally oblivious to anyone else and were so engaged in their conversation and one-upmanship (though in fact, they were female) that I often used to think that the ceiling could fall in on them or a bomb could go off and they wouldn't notice. They would still be having their loud debate as they were carried away on separate stretchers. This of course sparked an idea that I utilised to what I hope is a comic effect, when creating this story of disaster and mayhem. Similarly, when I was a teenager, I would wander around the local estate with a similarly earnest and much cleverer young man discussing whatever we thought was intellectually cool that week - Joseph Conrad novels, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, why we didn't have girlfriends, etc. And after drawing this story, I suddenly realised that Shibblemott was me and the other (Kukkutchnetch) was my friend. I must stress at this point that I am not actually see-through, although I am fairly transparant. Anyway, funny old thing the subconscious ain't it? Though if you want to argue the point I can direct you to a certain alcove and two students who I'm sure would love to join you, just please remember, for the sake of others, keep your voice down!
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